Kent Conrad: “It is incredibly important to the economics of the country that we make further progress.”

I am eager to hear from our panelists to get a better sense of all the options they considered and how they reached consensus on the final report.

You know, we did have discussions. One of the things on this commission, because of its makeup and the diversity of views on this commission, and the extraordinary difficulty of coming together on Social Security, which we thought was the…

I think there is just a tremendous opportunity here, and I really applaud the two of you for doing this in a bipartisan way.

The new improvised system was not adequate.